En Passant Installation - Berlin
Miruna Toma & Razvan Batin
29.07.2011 - 10.09.2011
Metro Franz Neumann Platz, Berlin
En passant(from French: in passing) is a move on the board game of chess. It is a special capture position: an opposing pawn can capture it if it is moved two squares forward. In this situation, the opposing pawn may capture the first pawn as if taking action that takes place without any efforts alongside another.
The Installation speculates on the title’s two meanings and aims to challenge people out of their indifferent passing-by. It alludes to the thoughts that are constantly on our minds, thoughts that keep us from meeting one another.
Using an interactive staging light, it breaks the daily routine and tries to induce a space of encounter, where people, thoughts and feelings can coincide. We plan to design a temporary community where nothing and no one is random. Casual passers-by become participants, casual wishes become words, casual dreams become images… The work aims at collecting chance and transforming it into a meeting.
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Proiect: România
A doua ediție a Romanian Visual Survey reunește unele din cele mai bune lucrări vizuale realizate în 2009 în România și de către artiști vizuali români în general. În acest an au fost selecționate lucrările a 49 de artiști vizuali activi, printre altele, în domenii precum fotografia, designul grafic, ilustrația, pictura și animația digitală. Chiar dacă este reprezentativă pentru universul vizual românesc, selecția nu este exhaustivă.
Înscrierile pentru Proiect: România rămân deschise până pe 15 aprilie 2010. Pentru mai multe detalii vizitați www.incotro.org/projects/proiect-romania/.
nine things about love
Film interactiv realizat in cadrul ‘Press repeat, Sam’ Fundatia Altart.
CREDITS: Claudiu COBILANSCHI, Razvan BATIN, Octavian FEDOROVICI, Ancu MARIS
CAST: Istvan SZAKATS, Laura CODREANU, Barbara BUH, Anda PUSCAS, Mihai NANU, Octavian FEDOROVICI, Krishna STOTT, Aura POPA, Melinda VISAN, Rudolf COSTIN
OPERATOR: Rita BOTH
FOTO: Andrada Pop
THANKS TO: Krishna STOTT, Laura CODREANU, Rarita ZBRANCA, Istvan SZAKATS
MUSIC BY: KLF
PROGRAMMING BY: GOD.BLESS.FLESH (Razvan BATIN)
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I Am A Chain Reaction
Concept:
Dana Gingras, Amit Pitaru, James Paterson
Programming & Animation:
James Paterson & Amit Pitaru
Choreography:
Dana Gingras
Dancers:
Dana Gingras & Sarah Doucet
Music:
Roger Tellier-Craig modifying The Knife.
This is an excerpt from ‘I Am A Chain Reaction’ which is one of seven works that make up the dance/animation/programming hybrid project, Smashup.
Smashup is the outcome of an ongoing collaboration between artists James Paterson & Amit Pitaru ( Insertsilence ), and dancer/choreographer Dana Gingras ( Animals of Distinction, The Holy Body Tattoo ). Smashup premiered in its complete form, an hour long performance, at the Festival Transamérique in Montreal in the summer of 2008.
Others involved in I Am A Chain Reaction are:
Dancer Sarah Doucet (the other being Gingras herself).
Musician Roger Tellier-Craig (of Fly Pan Am & Godspeed You! Black Emperor) who modified the song ‘Bird’ by swedish band ‘The Knife’.
Visual artist Jeremy Felker who helped create the animated vignette that is present in the full 10 minute incarnation of the work.
The software component of I Am A Chain Reaction is projected from above and running live during the performance. This is a raw video recording from above and involves no compositing.
